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CamCRAG trustee Ed Sexton is volunteering with Watershed in Moria refugee camp on Lesvos for four weeks. CamCRAG supported Watershed with a grant of £3,000 at the end of last summer. In this article he talks about the vital work they do.

We are delighted to annouce that Rowan Williams will be speaking at this year's sponsored sleepout on 15 February.

"Somewhere among the flashy volunteering adverts, offering ‘the summer of your life’, enticing university students with the promise that ‘this will look good on your CV’, lies the Calais migrant crisis; grey, dull, dreary, and mostly forgotten." Cambridge student Luke reflects on his volunteering trips to Calais with CamCRAG, and hopes more CU students will consider giving up a weekend to help in the future.

CamCRAG now accepts donations between £1 and £20 by SMS. To donate, text CAMCRAG followed by the amount to 70085 - so CAMCRAG 19 would be a £19 donation. If you don't enter an amount, you will give the default donation of £5

A video about Project Play, who work to provide a safe space for child refugees in Northern France.

On the December convoy, we were expecting change in Calais, as the warehouse moved and Collective Aid took over operations. These changes have begun but, in many ways, things remain the same.

83 more ponchos were delivered to Calais last week, joining the 238 taken a few weeks ago

Thanks to our awesome volunteers we raised over £700 at last weekend's Mill Road Winter Fair

CamCRAG would like to extend a big thank you to Downing Place URC for another generous donation of £500. We are extremely grateful.

We would like to thank everyone who visited the Locker Cafe over the past two Fridays and bought one or more of the crafts and gifts we had on sale. We sold over £700 of items over the two days!